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Romain Tardy · software and engineering · 2017 · SkyDesert Festival, Hebei, China
Our role Real-time software, engineering.
A large light, sound and image installation made of 72 networked modules, an attempt to send a message into space. By day they are mirrors reflecting the sky; by night they light up in patterns visible from far away.
Visitors join a local wifi network with their phone. Their IP address appears on the installation, then becomes a light sequence of the data exchanged with the server, while three animated messages play on their phone. They reinterpret the messages sent into space in the 1970s: the Pioneer plaque, the Arecibo radio message and the LAGEOS plaque.
We wrote the software and designed the electrical engineering: 72 modules synchronised over a network, a local server turning every connection into light, and a self-sufficient setup in the middle of the desert.
SkyDesert Festival, Hebei, China, May 2017.
Credits
- Concept and design Romain Tardy
- Sound design Loran Delforge
- Software and electrical engineering Hand Coded: Cyril Laurier
- Production MTA Festival
- Executive production Jesler Amarins
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Team
- Romain Tardy · Visual artist, light and installations
- Cyril Laurier · Co-founder. PhD in music AI, Sony CSL researcher.
- Laurent Delforge · Composer and sound designer, NONE Studio
